Part 1: Surface Energy Balance






Part 3: Los Angeles Neighborhoods

Temperature and NDVI

  • What is NDVI?
  • What should we expect from this relationship?
  • What does a high NDVI tell us about a neighborhood’s water use?

  • Do you think there is a relationship here?
  • What do you think prevents us from finding a correlation?
  • What other relationships did you find?




Tayyebi and Jenerette found that NDVI and LST were negatively correlated across coastal, inland, and desert zones:

Tayyebi, Amin, and Darrel G Jenerette. “Increases in the Climate Change Adaption Effectiveness and Availability of Vegetation across a Coastal to Desert Climate Gradient in Metropolitan Los Angeles, CA, USA.” Science of The Total Environment 548-549: 60–71.